Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expression of frustration at endless stories and reports followed by little or no action. As LIFE's Jack Rosenthal noted, "The frustration is not so much with the press as with the public, which doesn't respond. There is a natural tendency to blame the messenger for failure to get the message across." Some reporters refused to be drawn into the arguments. "I refuse to bore you with my opinions," Bill Buckley remarked imperiously to one hostile audience. But the continual hostility brought out occasional flashes of anger in other reporters anxious to defend the press...
...students find the transition from home to college difficult. In past times this was blamed by the student on himself, and most of them therefore tried to do something about themselves and sooner or later succeeded. Today both white and black students tend to blame the faculty for the difficulties they encounter in adjusting to a different way of life and study...
...find any difference, really. The only time he said anything new was immediately after the war, that great speech of his, when for a moment, I think, he was prepared to take the blame on himself. But I must say to his credit, he recovered very quickly and became true to himself again...
Scott admits that the agencies are not exclusively to blame. Many of them have tried genuine rehabilitation with their patients and have been rebuffed. "The blind person who deliberately thrusts himself into the everyday life of the community is soon treated as a nuisance; the blindness worker who pursues too seriously the goal of reintegration soon wears out his welcome. There is an unacknowledged desire on the part of the public to avoid contact with blind persons, a covert yet stubborn resistance to any genuine movement of blind people from the agency back into the mainstream of community life." Although...
Debate over Dividend. The size and shape of the "peace dividend"-the resources freed to the nation by an end to the war-remains open to question. It would not be nearly as huge as claimed by those who blame all the nation's ills on Viet Nam. On the over-optimistic premise of a possible ceasefire early this year, Schultze projected a dividend that would grow from $8 billion in 1971 to as much as $40 billion a year in 1974 as the economy continued to expand. During his campaign, President Nixon mentioned a dividend figure...